There's a whole field of collecting built around children's alphabet plates. These nineteenth century teaching tools had the alphabet around the rim, and when the meal was finished the little one saw whatever the maker had put in the middle. Sort of a reward.
Sometimes didactic...
Or a pretty genre scene, perhaps to associate learning with pleasant times. Like this one...
or this one?
Yes, that's what it is...
"Eat your porrige, so you can see the seal clubbing!"
1 comment:
You read my mind.
The rep.
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